Three Atheists I Listen To
Becoming a follower of Jesus Christ, an heir of the King and a fellow servant in the Kingdom of God began when I first believed that God existed. What followed was the understanding that God not only existed but that He is an Infinite-Personal God who, though having created the vast universe ex nihilo using…
When I Think of Christmas
When I think of Christmas I think of the King of Love laid in a manger – Sovereignty supine under sterling stars twinkling through millennia of delight, Sublimity submitted to the gaze of cherubim and seraphim and slack-jawed shepherds. When I think of Christmas I think of a Son, A Son, whose tiny hands, emptied of…
Giving, the Gift That Keeps on Giving
Gary Chapman’s book The Five Love Languages offers couples and people in general a means to communicate with each other at the deepest of levels – at the level where a person’s need is discovered and then met through the action of another. When this occurs, Chapman contends, love was the intent and the result…
The New/Old Jesus People Speak to California
Years ago, in the 60’s and 70’s, I was part of the Jesus People Movement. It was during those days that I heard street-wise preachers like Phil in school auditoriums and in public parks. Hundreds of us teenagers attended. We brought our school friends with us and many believed. And after they believed we took…
Neo-Fascists and the Collective Face of Hatred Directed At Israel
The American Studies Association has passed a resolution promoted by the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement to single out Israel alone for an academic boycott. You can read the whole sordid back story here at Legal Insurrection’s post: Boycott, Divest and Sanction the American Studies Association Added: some thoughts on the collectivist’s worshipful…
Climate Apocalyptic-ism & The WannaBe Oppressed
Psalm 8 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the…
The Evidential Power of Beauty & the Quantum Dynamics of Love
If nothing else, Terrence Malick’s movies are visually stunning, beautiful by any measure of the soul. We are capitvated and drawn in by the visual beauty, a Lily of the Valley Beauty. In his latest movie ‘To the Wonder” we can hear Saint Patrick’s Prayer whispered within the music of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No.3 “Symphony of…
Kingdom Venturers 